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Post by Moose on Nov 7, 2021 0:08:09 GMT
We - well I, as Col doesn't eat Chinese food - had a sweet and sour with spring rolls. Very tasty and more than half left for tomorrow.
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Post by JoeP on Nov 7, 2021 11:08:09 GMT
Did Col starve?
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Post by Moose on Nov 7, 2021 22:33:55 GMT
He had chips and something
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Post by JoeP on Nov 7, 2021 23:02:14 GMT
Chips and things are also good.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 19, 2021 17:59:28 GMT
I'm leaning toward Chinese, and deep-fried prawns, in particular, for December 25. So many other outlets are closed on that day, but not the Chinese restaurants, all with take-out.
I'm ready to overdo battered and deep-fried prawns.
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Post by Moose on Nov 30, 2021 1:40:30 GMT
Sweet and sour. Sweet and sour is a Good Thing.
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Post by tangent on Nov 30, 2021 11:46:29 GMT
Not for me because I'm diabetic. Indian meals suit me better. Four years ago we went to an Indian restaurant on Christmas Day.
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Post by Kye on Nov 30, 2021 13:06:40 GMT
As another diabetic, it breaks my heart that I can't eat Asian food, no rice, noodles, dumpling, sweet and sour... But, like tangent, I thank goodness I can still eat Indian (without the rice of course)!
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 30, 2021 21:11:50 GMT
Indian foods are reputed to be heavy with sodium, usually a substance to be avoided.
I had a bad reaction to Chinese food the last time I indulged. I think that was related to the extremely high levels of monosodium glutamate in the stir-fried mixes. I have not eaten out with Chinese food in more than a year and I'm restricting my intake. Which is one reason I've shunted it to an evening when most other restaurants will be closed. And, I've decided to limit myself to just battered, deep-fried prawns and a dish of their sauted green beans.
If you want a good source of relatively healthy foods in an exotic food, go Lebanese. It is the classic 'Mediterranean diet'. Lots of olive oil and herbs to boost the flavors on low-salt foods.
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Post by Moose on Nov 30, 2021 22:32:32 GMT
Indian food IS Asian food
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Post by tangent on Dec 1, 2021 0:40:29 GMT
Indian foods are reputed to be heavy with sodium, usually a substance to be avoided. I buy most of my Indian meals from the supermarket as a 'ready meal'. Printed clearly on the front of the packet is the salt content (along with carbohydrates, fats and sugar) and the recommended daily intake. This means we can tell at a glance if they put too much salt in and as a consequence, they keep the salt content low. Since I'm used to how much salt there should be in an Indian meal, I believe I can tell if the Indian takeaway were to overload their meals with salt. The main problem I have with Indian takeaways is the fat content. My favourite English restaurant overloads their meals with salt and I have complained to the manager several times but to no avail.
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Post by Kye on Dec 1, 2021 1:10:28 GMT
Indian food IS Asian food Not here. Asian food is Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean etc... anywhere the population has epicanthal folds. Indian food would never be called Asian here.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 3, 2021 1:13:02 GMT
Indian food IS Asian food Yes...But then, Lebanese food is also 'Asian food'. As are doner kebabs. The descriptor 'Asian' is not particularly helpful.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 3, 2021 10:43:00 GMT
When Kye uses a word, it means just what she chooses it to mean. Neither more nor less.
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Post by Kye on Dec 3, 2021 12:30:43 GMT
Exactly!
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Post by Moose on Dec 4, 2021 0:03:53 GMT
Asian here tends to mainly refer to Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. Dunno why that is
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Post by Kye on Dec 4, 2021 0:41:55 GMT
How do you refer to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamize, etc food?
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 4, 2021 0:58:43 GMT
Almost all such food outlets in these parts use the specific ethnic descriptors. Something might be called 'Asian' if it carried multiple ethnic sources, which happens with SE Asian foods a lot, but by and large, they go by specific ethnic labeling. Chinese is now even subdivided into Cantonese, Mandarin, and Szechuan/Hunan, and Mongol is considered even separate from those. Most South Asian outlets tend to bill themselves as 'Indian', when foods from the subcontinent can be quite different from each other. We tend to have 'Middle Eastern' restaurants instead of Lebanese, Persian, or Turkish restaurants, but I'm not sure why, although there is a strong tendency to subtext the menu with specific ethnicity. I'll be curious to see what the latest diaspora from central Asia will bring in the way of new cuisine...I don't think mutton shashlik is gonna go over all that well.
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Post by Moose on Dec 4, 2021 2:07:57 GMT
Chinese, Japanese etc foods are referred to as .. well .. CHinese, Japanese etc food . Same as with people ... although those countries are in Asia, the people would not be described as Asian.
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Post by tangent on Dec 4, 2021 12:09:14 GMT
We refer to specific countries in Asia too, Chinese, Japanese and Thai, but we group Indian, Pakistani and Bangladesh all together as Indian.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 4, 2021 15:47:09 GMT
We refer to specific countries in Asia too, Chinese, Japanese and Thai, but we group Indian, Pakistani and Bangladesh all together as Indian. Now, there...That's curious, to me. What with the Commonwealth providing a rich source of immigrants from all over that area in sufficient numbers to fuel a cuisine far from its origin, I would think that it would go the other way and you would see permutations of the various subdivisions of ethnic foods...Kashmiri, Gujarati, Bengali, Goan, Baluchi, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I understand that the panoply of regional cuisines in the subcontinent is amazingly diverse enough to be stupifying. I suspect that in 'taming' the flavors to the English palette, the immigrant cooks had to pervert it in to 'Indian' food. (It happens here, too. Even what 'Chinese' food Chinese cooks prepare tends to be a poor relation to the tastes of the native palate...to appeal to the 'locals'.)
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Post by tangent on Dec 4, 2021 17:18:14 GMT
I'm not convinced the waiters in Indian takeaways are overly familiar with their Indian roots. I asked for a Lamb Chennai in a couple of establishments but it didn't register. They just looked blank.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 4, 2021 17:39:26 GMT
I'm not convinced the waiters in Indian takeaways are overly familiar with their Indian roots. I asked for a Lamb Chennai in a couple of establishments but it didn't register. They just looked blank. It is possible that their heritage did not include 'lamb chennai', even though their heritage is of the subcontinent. The Indian subcontinent is home to a vast number of variant ethnicities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups). Then, they might have what you, and others, call 'lamb chennai', but they call it something else entirely. Then, in that regard here in the US, if you order a 'General Tso's Chicken' in different Chinese restaurants across the US, you will get a wide variety of differing recipes. The same with several other common menu options. And, chop suey isn't even Chinese; it was reputedly a leftover dish concocted in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant.
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Post by tangent on Dec 4, 2021 22:19:17 GMT
Then, they might have what you, and others, call 'lamb chennai', but they call it something else entirely. Indeed, they would call it Lamb Madras. But the city of Madras changed its name in 1996 to Chennai. I was trying to wind them up, very gently, but it didn't work I might have had more luck asking for Mumbai potatoes.
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Post by Moose on Dec 4, 2021 22:41:25 GMT
I assume you mean that we lump Indian etc FOOD together and call it all Indian, but not PEOPLE.
I gather most 'Indian' restaurants are actually Pakistani or Bangladeshi run
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Post by tangent on Dec 5, 2021 13:19:52 GMT
I assume you mean that we lump Indian etc FOOD together and call it all Indian, but not PEOPLE Yes.
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Post by Mari on Dec 25, 2021 8:28:38 GMT
Almost all sushi and pizza bars in the Netherlands are either run by Chinese or Turkish people. Finding international food restaurants actually ran by people of the corresponding nationality is rare if you're not in the West. That said, we have a wonderful Canadian restaurant here, by a Canadian couple. We're near one of the areas where Canadians fought for us with a museum and cemetery, so we get quite a bit of traffic from that.
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Post by Kye on Dec 25, 2021 11:19:29 GMT
That's interesting! Canadian food is quite regional --what kind of food does the restaurant serve?
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 25, 2021 15:19:30 GMT
Prolly serves everything with a maple glaze...
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Post by Moose on Dec 25, 2021 21:56:48 GMT
Poutine!
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